Turning caring experience into opportunity.
Caring changes lives. It can be rewarding, but it can also mean fewer opportunities to work, study, or follow personal goals. Carerpreneurs was created to support carers — unpaid, paid, and former — who want to explore self-employment and build flexible futures.
If you’re a home-based carer dreaming of something more — a flexible business that fits around your caring role, you’re in the right place.
At Carerpreneurs, we provide practical digital resources and 1-to-1 support to help you take the leap into self-employment with confidence.
Whether you’re just exploring ideas or ready to launch, we’re here to support every step of your journey.
A Business with Purpose
Social Enterprise Values
The business is run as a social enterprise — balancing sustainable income with meaningful social impact. Our focus is on supporting carers, nurturing wellbeing, and helping people build businesses that fit real life.
Impact in Practice
As a social enterprise, my work focuses on creating practical, human-centred impact — shaped by lived experience and real-world need.
In practice, this means:
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Accessible support for carers
Creating digital tools and guidance that fit around caring responsibilities, fluctuating energy, and real life. -
Flexible pathways into self-employment
Helping people explore small, realistic income options — from side hustles to gentle business ideas — without pressure or overwhelm. -
Reinvestment of skills and time
Income from paid work supports the development of low-cost and free resources, community activity, and partnership work that benefits carers and small businesses. -
Wellbeing-led business support
Prioritising confidence, clarity and nervous-system-aware working — not hustle culture.
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Digital Resources
Practical tools to support you at your own pace.
Not everyone wants a membership — and that’s absolutely fine.
The Carerpreneurs digital resources are designed to be used individually, in your own time, with no ongoing commitment. Each resource focuses on a specific area of starting or growing a small business, in a way that fits around caring responsibilities.
These resources are available to purchase individually, so you can choose exactly what you need, when you need it.
Digital resources coming soon.
Wellbeing
Founder Judy Illing is an authorised reseller for Lily and Loaf. You can check out their natural supplements,essential oils and more here.
You can also take a FREE lifestyle health check to identify your needs.
Carerpreneurs is a carers-led programme delivered by The Business Signpost Ltd.